1Peter - Chapter 3 | American Standard Version

  • 1. In like manner, ye wives, {cf15i be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
  • 2. beholding your chaste behavior {cf15i coupled} with fear.
  • 3. Whose {cf15i adorning} let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
  • 4. but {cf15i let it be} the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible {cf15i apparel} of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
  • 5. For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
  • 6. as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
  • 7. Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with {cf15i your wives} according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
  • 8. Finally, {cf15i be} ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
  • 9. not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
  • 10. For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:
  • 11. And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
  • 12. For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
  • 13. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?
  • 14. But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed {cf15i are ye:} and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;
  • 15. but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: {cf15i being} ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
  • 16. having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
  • 17. For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
  • 18. Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 19. in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
  • 20. that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
  • 21. which also after a true likeness doth now save you, {cf15i even} baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
  • 22. who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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